Genocide in Laos During the Vietnam War

The Cambodian Genocide has the historical context of the Vietnam War and the country’s own civil war. During the Vietnam War, leading up to the conflicts that would contribute to the genocide, Cambodia was used as a U.S. battleground for the Vietnam War. Cambodia would become a battle ground for American troops fighting in Vietnam for four years; the war would kill up

Just by the name itself, it can already be implied to what the “Secret War” was. It was a war that was kept as a secret from the public, and by public, I mean the American public. Many of you may wonder what exactly is the secret war, and I will explain that throughout my speech. But before I continue to explain the details of what it was and when it took place, it is also important to introduce the group of people who I will be talking about throughout my speech and how they were affected by this war, and that group of people is the Hmong people.

Cambodia, my small country bordering Thailand, has recently descended into a grisly crisis of outright genocide of innocent citizens, my innocent neighbors. This genocide is very different from any other genocide because it isn't driven by racial or religious reasons, but by poisonous ideology, the ideology of my own neighbors. As of today a little less than a million Cambodians have died either from starvation, torture, disease, execution, and even exhaustion from hard labor carried out by their own families, by my own neighbors.

There have been several genocides in the past century. The Cambodian Genocide and the Holocaust are two of the great tragedies of the twentieth century. The Holocaust occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe. The Cambodian genocide took place in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge was an overwhelming communist force that took Phnom Penh by surprise. In Cambodia, “21% of the population was killed. That is about 1.7 million people that lost their lives” (“Past Genocides”). There was little commotion or outcry from the world after Cambodia, but after the Holocaust, there were museums and memorials built, and extensive integration into the curriculum of students everywhere. The methods, persecutions of certain groups, and the prohibition of

Genocides are defined as a large group of killings often of a specific ethnic group or nation. Genocides targeting specific groups happen all over the world. Sometimes they are well known, while in other cases they are hidden and not published as much. Unlike the Holocaust, The Khmer Rouge Regime caused a smaller scale genocide in the heart of Cambodia. Beginning in the late 1960s the Khmer Rouge Regime came into power. Their leader Pol Pot committed atrocities, killing a little over two million innocent people. Pol Pot believed that this new society was becoming evil. He decided to bring the city of Phnom Penh back to the middle ages with communal farming. He murdered every “intellectual” of the country. He killed anyone who had any education, or even worse, glasses. He isolated the city and everybody in it. There are many stories coming from the victim's point of view and how they felt as 2.2 million of their own were killed. There are also reasons of why the Cambodian government's committed this atrocity. Finally, there are the views from America and its feelings towards watching the genocide go down from outside the country. Looking through all of these different lenses of this genocide help get a big picture of how and why something so horrific could have happened.

Unfortunately, genocide and mass killings happen in many places around the world and bring destruction to thousands of people. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Some genocides occur due to small, invading groups of people, or one dictator in power who dreams of a “pure” land to rule. Others occur because of a country’s own government and the people in it who wish to change the makeup of their country. Genocide, a horrible and terrible thing, happens more often and in more places than most people can imagine. Many individuals believe that genocide is a thing of the past, but in reality mass killings arise and transpire for years at a time

The word Genocide can be described many ways, but is customarily utilized in the same inchoation within eight stages of Genocide. In South Vietnam, the killings all commenced from the different regime views on communism. The adamant murdering of the Vietnamese people in South Vietnam falls within the the eight stages. Dolefully, genocide does not come to a halt by itself because there needs to be a substantial ceasing power to put it to rest. It is very hard for me to grasp what authentically transpired and those inculpable people killed in South Vietnam. I didn't realize how the U.S. did so many preposterous killings to reprehensible unarmed civilians using inhumane ways such as gas bombs, poisonous gas, toxic chemicals, white phosphorus bombs, napalm, and B-52 bombers.

Cambodia experienced mass death, approximately 1.7 million lives, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975 through 1979. The Khmer Rouge regime dominated the Cambodian government and attempted to purge the population of intellectuals, professionals and supporters of the original government. In an attempt to better the country’s economic standing at a horrendously rapid rate, the country instead experienced mass destruction. The purpose of this paper is to explore the various ways devastation was brought upon Cambodia and how it affected the populace. In the 1950’s the country was engulfed by the civil war north and south Vietnam was waging after gaining independence from France. The battlefield of the war overflowed into Cambodia and caused physical

I am going to be writing about the Cambodian Genocide. The Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian government in 1975. The Khmer Rouge was a name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. Their goal was too taken entire control of Cambodia. They succeeded for four years straight. Between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodian people were lost during the 4 year rapant of the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia was taken over April 17, 1975. This resulted in the gradual devastation of over 25% of the country’s population in just four short years.

Long time ago, there was one couple who lived in a small village in Cambodia. They married with each other since they both were both 24 years old. A year after married, they decided to run a small business in order to support their life and everyday expansion. Unfortunately, the business did not go very well and they did not have any children. When they turned to 65 years, they promised each other if anyone die first, the one who still survive has to put the coin into the death person’s mouth. 5 years later, the husband has passed away. So his wife put the coin inside his mouth as they promised since 5 years ago.

One genocide that occurred after World War II was in the 1970’s. The Cambodian genocide lasted from 1975 till 1979 and was caused by a number of events. In 1970 Cambodia’s ruler, Prince Sihanouk, was deposed in a military coup. A new right wing government was established and a lieutenant-general, Lon Nol, was made president of the ‘Khmer Republic.’ Sihanouk and his followers joined forces with a communist guerrilla organization lead by Pol Pot known as the Khmer Rouge. They attacked Lon Nol’s army and a Civil war broke out. Cambodia was also caught up in the Vietnam war by becoming part of the battlefield. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot were suspicious of Vietnam’s relations with Cambodia and Lon Nol’s Collaboration with

Millions of people have fallen victim to genocide throughout the world. From the well known German Holocaust, to the lesser known African Holocaust in Rwanda, genocide has happened, and is happening, throughout the world. Genocide has existed since the beginning of human civilization and as controversial as it is, still happens to this day.

Over the years, many genocides have taken place sadly. The most known being the Holocaust where many jewish people lost their lives for no reason besides they were of a certain religion. This type of genocide is known as despotic genocides. It is when a government murders as a weapon against rivals for

Sisowath Doung Chanto was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and lost his life to the Cambodian Genocide, an unfortunate event that caused the death of around one and a half million people (Leslie 6). In Cambodia, a population of around seven million dropped down to around five million from the genocide as well as the accompanying famine, rebellion, and war. In 1975-1979, an infamous communist regime, called the Khmer Rouge, headed by Pol Pot, brutally killed twenty five percent of Cambodia’s original population. The Khmer Rouge regime savagely stole resources and countless skilled Cambodians and created immense suffering for survivors. Sisowath is only one of the innumerable individuals who endured a struggle for survival and perished during

Who is to decide whether or not a life should be taken? Should the decision lie in the hands of your "God", in the hands of the rich and powerful, or in the hands of a random stranger? Well, a man by the name of Pol Pot decided to take it upon himself to bring about the end of the lives of 2.3 million people. This mass killing was/is known as the Cambodian Genocide, which began in the year 1975, and continued for four years before ending in 1979. The Genocide was carried out by Pol Pot and those of the Khmer Regime. (Sharp, 2008)